Chełm
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Chełm is a city in eastern Poland in the Lublin Voivodeship with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some 25
Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary
Baroque Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary
Market square, 2024
Early 20th-century view of Chełm
Daniel of Galicia
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Daniel Romanovich was Prince of Galicia, Volhynia, Grand Prince of Kiev, and King of Ruthenia. He was the son of Roman Mstislavich of Volhynia and Anne-Euphrosyne, the daughter of Byzantine emperor Is
Chełm
…castle there in 1001. Following the Polish capture of Kiev in 1018, the region returned to Poland before it fell back to Kievan rule in 1031. In 1235, Daniel of Galicia granted the town a city charter and moved the capital of his domain in 1241–1272 after destruction of Halych by the Mongols in 1240–1241. Daniel also…
Daniel depicted in a miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century)
Daniel Romanovich and Mstislav Mstislavich with their troops at Kalka
Territorial boundaries of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (1245–1349).
Mitre of the Greek Catholic bishops of Przemysl, reputed to have earlier served as Daniel's royal crown